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STATE SCHOOL BOOKS.
A Statement from State Superintendent;
HOitt Upon the Subject.

Hoitt Upon the Subject.
The San Francisco Chronicle of yesterday
has the following:
We had occasion, some days since, to re-
fer to the report of a committee of the
Knights OF Labor on the question of the
publication of the State series of school
books. This report reflected seriously on
Ira g. Hoitt, State Superintendent of Public
instruction, charging him with ignorance
of the requirements of the schools of the
State, and especially with not using his
authority to keep the State Printing Office
running with full force in order to sup
ply the necessary books.
We have received a communication from
Mr.. Hoitt on this subject, and if he is cor
rect in his statements, which we see no
reason to dodbt, the report of the commit
tee referred to has done him an Injustice
! Mr.. Holt points out that the estimate of
the number of reading and spelling books
needed for 1887 was made by the former
| Board of Education during the term of
office of Superintendent Weicker, and that,
[ by that estimate, the number of books re-
quired would be: First Readers, As 900 :;
| Second Readers, 10000: Third Readers,
25 900, and Spoilers, 5000. Mr. Hoitt states
that the books, 140, 900 in all, have been
completed. that about 10000 copies of all
kinds have been sold, and that the bal
ance, 100 1000, is now on hand Mr.. Hoitt
further says that in his judgment, after
every child who requires book is sup
piled from July 1887, to July, 1888. there
will still be over 10000 left, and that the
orders for books will be watched with ex-
treme care, so that the stock on hand of
any kind of book shall not get below TO-
| 900. Whenever 1t does, the Executive
Committee of the State Board of Education
is authorized to order such additions as it
| NAV deem necessary.
Mr.. Hoitt points ont very torcibly and
clearly that his oath of office and his con-
stitutional obligations will not allow him
| to keep the State Printing Office running
except when it is necessary, and that, al
| though he is heartily in sympathy with
workingmen and workingwomen, his
duty to the State will not permit him to
furnish them employment in an illegal
manner. He further says that he is in
sympathy with the school-book law, and
will see its provisions faithfully carried out
so long as he is in office.
Before adopting as final the report of its
committee, Local Assembly No S55. of
| the Knights of Labor, would do we'll to
| make further investigation. That body
has no right to assume that because there
| is an unexpended appropriation an officer
of the State is derelict in his duty, or that
because the State Printing Office is not
running the State Superintendent does
not mean to supply the required school
| books to scholars. There are usually two
sides to question. and the people of the
State who elected Mr.. Hoitt to his position
will be glad to know that the report of this
committee of the Knights of Labor goes to
extreme lengths, ID say the least, and
would probably be better for revision.
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As AN example of the evil done by hasty
and ill-timed criticism and willful misrep
resentation by home papers, take the fol-
lowing from that reputable journal, the
Oregonian, by no means given to hasty
judgments, as rule:
It will be remembered that there was an effort
| to work up school-book job on the people of
Oregon during the recent session of our Legisla-
| ture. California's experience shows us what q
happy escape we made. Since California with
| It's vastly greater resources and larger market
has made failure of it. it is not difficult to see
what the result here would have been
Now this conclusion is reached by our
Oregon contemporary, upon acceptance as
true of statements made by certain of the
California press that our State textbook
series is a failure, in that the books are
=" dear at any price" that they are iDdiffer-
emily printed, miserably bound" "poorly
arranged" and altogether inferior to those
issued by private publishers. Yet it is
fact that the books are better printed than
any used heretofore; are firmly, neatly
and thoroughly well bound, and are of
first-class workmanship, and that the text
matter is drawn from the very best stand
ards of literature, the private pub
fishers having no monopoly of
the world Of letters. As to
arrangement" educators admit that they
are modelled after the best known stand
ards, and agree with the most advanced
theory and practice Of teaching As to
price, they are furnished to the people at
about 60 per cent. less than the books
formerly in use, and still return to the
State every cent of the cost of their COM
pilation, printing and binding, and re-
place the capital invested in the plant.
But, over and above, and rising superior
to all these things, the system eliminates
from our educational and other politics
the book agent with his sack and the pub
fishing houses with their manipulation of
Legislatures, School Boards and school
elections. The OregoaiGn has been wholly
misinformed and cruelty misled to a iudg-
ment that has in fact not leg to stand
upon. 1t is part of the scheme Of the
publishers syndicate to prevent any other
State following the example of California,
and hence the persistent falsehoods that
are so industriously disseminated. The
Oregonicn can safely advise its State to
follow the example of California. There
is economy, peace and political and educa-
tional elevation in it.
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SALE!
4 Fresno County RaiSin Vineyard.
Alfalfa and General Farm hight
Hundred Acres.

Hinder A FINE STATE OF CULTIVATION
u and irrigation. Fences, buildings, bitches,
levees and checks built in the most Substantial
manner. SOIL unexcelled, as growth of pro-
ducts show. Located near one of the most
thriving towns on the g. P. Co. Railroad TWO
HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT ACRES IN
VINES, from one to six years old; all have been
vine-growers, and will soon be prominent
RAISIN VINEYARD OF FRESNO COUNTY.
About two hundred acres in Alfalfa. The rest
of the land is now in Grain crops. The
farm is well stocked with Horses, Mules, Cattle
and Hogs. This is good substantial interest
paying investment with a great future. Will be
sold at a very reasonable price, with easy terms
of payment if required. For full information
and MAP, apply to
ALBERT +. CRANE,
4l0 Montgomery street, San Francisco, Agent
for sale of all kinds of country property.
mr242p1ln
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A Druggists Story.

Mr.. Isaac C. Chapman, druggist, New
burg, n. Y, writes us: Il have for the past
ten years sold several gross of DIR. William
Halls Balsam for the Lungs. l can say OF
it what | cannot say of any other medicine
| have never heard a customer speak of il
but to praise its virtues in the highest
n amer. have recommended it in great
many cases OF Whooping Cough with the
happiest effects. l have used it in my own
family for many years in fact, ALWAYS
have bottle in the medicine closet ready
for use.p
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The comparatively unimportant dispute
over the bait" question. The advice of
the peace conservators is certain to be
taken. Whether it had been given or not,
arbitration, or withdrawal of their claims
by the Canadians, was certain to have
marked the outcome of the small tempest
of loud talk.
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CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.

The REcoRD-UsIoH 4, the only paper on
he coast, outside OF San Francisco, TIA: re-
eeives the fstU associated Press dispatches from
all parts Of the scorid. Outside of San Fran
cisco 1. has no competitor, in fsoint of Num-
bers, IN is bo4nc ard geesral circulation
hrinLohoss: The coast.
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Mr.. DIXON, ST., is now on a short visit to this
Coast, and can be seen at the GOLDEN EAGLE
HOTEL, Sacramento, EVERY THURSDAY Suf-
ferers should write call and see him. Consultation
Free NO ONE ELSE HAS EVER ATTEMPTED
TO CURE THESE DISEASES IN THIS MANNER
and NO OTHER TREATMENT HAS EVER PER
MANENTLY CURED THEM. The pernanencv of
this is unquestioned, cures effected six
ago are cures still.
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THE Peace Society of England is mov
ing in the right direction when it urges
that the fisheries dispute be settled by ar
bitration. Generally the Society has
advocated peace at the expense of national
pride. In this instance it Is entirely justi-
fable in its prayer, for no one OH either
side Of the Atlantic has for moment cor
teiapsaied war as the probable outcome OF
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Payment to be made monthly in cash.
Bids to be addressed to n. NJ. Orr, Secretary of
the Board of Directors of the State Insane Asy-
lum, Stockton, and Endorsed on the envelope ::
" Proposals for Furnishing Supplies"
Samples of articles required may be seen at
the storeroom of the Asylum excepting towels
table linen, bedspreads, handkerchiefs, busklns
carpet slippers and tobacco samples of which
must be furnished by the bidder.
In order to preserve uniformity aud facilitate
the award, it has been resolved to receive no
bids unless made upon blank forms furnished
by the Secretary.
By order of tie Board OF Directors of the H.
sane ASYLUM OF the Stat. of California.
ap2-SwIuThS n. NJ. ORR, Secretary.
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bitter struggle. The friends Of the |
new system should be alert, keep |
ing in mind that this is to be a
continuous contention for several years to
come. The new plan is worth all and
more the cost and pains of watchfulness.
This journal, with the aid of very few
others, and against the opposition of the
many, stood the friend of the amendment
to the Constitution which gave us the sys-
tem about to be put to practical test.
The people, with practical unanimity,
adopted it, and ousted the book syndicates,
bag and baggage, from the politics of the
State. 1t did not, however, shake off their
hold upon some educational departments.
Unfortunately most teachers resisted the
amendment, and have resisted the laws
made in consonance with it; only small
minority were brave enough to withstand
the powerful influences brought to bear upon
them. Teachers are still largely hostile
to the whole scheme. To such hands the
new system is to be committed; the test
therefore will be of the severest character.
If it is given fairly honest "chance" it
will win despite the discouraging circum-
stances under which ii is about to enter
upon the second stage of its inauguration
1t is square" fight once more between
the book bosses and the people.
THE spasmodically agitated question of
the division of the State has again been
revived in Los Angeles and some other of
the southern counties. The chief argu-
ment advanced by the divisionists now is
that the people of the south have no inter-
est in some of the more important State
questions. For instance, say they, ave
have no interest in the debris question"
But they have; whatever concerns the
progressive movement of any part of the
State concerns all the people of the State.
The irrigation question, it is insisted, is
local to the south, and its settlement is re-
tarded by other interests, mainly northern,
absorbing legislative attention. This is
| inaccurate, at least. The irrigation ques-
ton is one related to about all the agri-
cultural sections of the State, and the chief
of these are at the north. 1t has invited
to its councils some of the best men at the
north, and engaged the active in
terest of the people of all parts
of California. Irrigation schemes in the
| upper section are now on foot that
dwarf themost extensive projected scheme,
| known in the South. The State has as
yet no divided interests, nor will it be
likely to have any for long time to come.
The division proposed would simply sub
stitute two weak States for one strong one
All this "talk " about division is mere
speculation. When the State has from
five to ten times the population it now
| claims, there may be substantial reasons
found for agitating the subject of divis-
| ion; until then it can only foster discon-
tent that is more studied than real. The
south is not prepared to bear alone the
costs and burdens of Statehood, nor yet is
the north. There is before the two a
quarter of century Of harmonious Joint
labor in building the State of California
before they can afford to begin to dispute
seriously over division of Tertiary.
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San FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

The paper is for sale ct the following places
l.. z. Fisher, Room II. Merchants Exchange,
who is also Sole Advertising Agent for San
Francisco: Grand and Palace Hotel News
Stands; Market-street Ferry and junction OF
Market and Montgomery street News Stands.
So Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coring into Sacramento
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FrTs!-All Fits stopped free by DIR.
Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits
after first days use Marvellous cures.
Treatise and 50 trial bottle free to Fit
cases. Send to DR.. Kline, 931 Arch street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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PERFECTLY sound body and a mind un-
impaired are possible only with pure blood.
Leading medical authorities indorse Ayers
Sarsaparilla as the best blood purifying
medicine in existence. 1t vastly increases
the working and productive powers Of both
hand and brain
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George Peters, prosperous farmer of
Buffalo, n. Y, has been arrested for shoot
ing and killing P. H. Griswold. the book
keeper for A. Thompson, Tonawanda
lumber merchant.
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A MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE
"A Golden Eagle Hotel, THIS (Tuesday)
EVENING, at o'clock. Business of import
ance. LIB. CT an a-lt
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
NOTICE,
CAPITAL TURF GLUE.

NOBODY Is TO BUY A HOUSE OF FRANK
~ LEWIS, because he has nothing to do with
The house. ll9-1t&l MRS. AMAZE VICAR
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AUCTION SALE.

At THE OPENING OF THE SALE ON
n WEDNESDAY, april Doth, at 10 A. NJ, at
Bell d Co.'S Selesrooms 927 street. win be
sold one fine Office or Bar Counter. walnut top:
also, two Show Tables, with platforms; two Long
Tables, four Platforms. two Show Windows, lot
OF Sash, Doors, Furniture, ETC.; also, GO yards
BODY Brussels Carpet, with border sa- Sale
positive. Terms cash
apl91t BELL & CO., Auctioneers.
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For fifteen years L was ANNOYED with
severe pain in my head and discharges into my
throat from Catarrh. Ny sense of smell was
much impaired. BY the use of Elys Cream
Balm have overcome these troubles.-J. b.
Case, st. Denis Hotel, Broadway, New York
feS-ly
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JOB PRINTING OFFICE.

TTNHE LARGE THREE-STORY BRICK BUILD
L ing used in the publication of the
RECORD-UNION and WEEKLY UNION,
Is undergoing repairs, and changes will be made
in the offices, which will leave the second story
nearly vacsnt and it viii be rented as JOB
OFFICE 10 responsible party. Steam Power
can be furnished from the Press-roOm, a1d
arrangements can be made whereby all large
work can be run off on the EEcoRD-UNI
Presses, if desired.
For terms and further particulars, apply at the
Counting room.
If ned Sacramento Publishing Co.
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The Glory of Man Is His Strength, and
for the many ailments arising from nervous
prostration and physical weakness such as loss
OF vital energy, nervous debility, seminal weak
ness lmpotency and the various ills caused by
1ndiscretion, Excess and Abuse there is no more
effectual remedy than DR.. LaMars' Seminal
pills. They build up the entire system, renew
the wasted energies, giving strength, vigor and
vitality 10 all the organs. The feeble and in
firm find in them veritable fountain of youth.
Price, q 90. Sent C. o. D., by express or by
mail, on receipt of price. Address all orders to
San Francisco. isS6m
6. 9. & e. L. southworts,, Dentists, Sac.
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ROSEDALE MARKET

s2l ..............SacramentO, Cal,
A TTAMA, WATSON & CO.. PROPHET Re-.
~ wholesale and retail dealers in Vegetables
Fruit, Eggs, Produce in general, Poultry Game
fresh, smoked salt and dry Fish. Ho,els, res
taurants and families supplied. Goods deliv-
cred free of charge.
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In answer to your questions about The
Cream Balm, would say that used it for cold
in the head with very beneficial results. have
kept it on hand for nearly two years +. A.
Reynolds, Riverside, Cal feS1y
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If You want a Number One Carpet
woven on short notice, send it to MARY S. cow
GER, SG2 N street. mrs-1m*
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Purchase Of Sacramento City Bends.

INHE UNDERSIGNED. COMMISSIONERS OF
l. the Funded Debt of the city of Sacramento,
hereby give notice that there is i'll said fund
about $4,000 applicable to the purchase of
bonds of the city of Sacramento, funded under
the Funding Acts of 1858 and 1864, and, that they
will, from this day until the THIRD MONDAY
in MAY, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ. 1887, receive sealed
proposals for the sale and surrender of such
bonds, with all coupons past due removed there
from
Bidders are required to state in their bids
when the bonds they propose to surrender ma.
ture. The Board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids. Address
NEWTON BOOTH, J
CHAS. R. PARSONS, commissioner.
SPARROW SMITE.
SACRAMENTO. April 4. 1857. api-5W
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Electric Belt Free !!

To introduce it and obtain agents we will, for the
next sixty daysgiye away, free feharge, in each
county in the o. s., a limited number of our Ger
man Electro Galtabic Suspensory Belts.
Price, IS; positive and uufaii ng cure for Ner-
yous Debility, Yariocele, Emissions, Impotency,
etc. $500 90 Reward paid If every Belt we manu-
fac ure does not generate genuine electric cur
rent. Address at once, ELECT1IC BELT
AGENCY, p. o. Box 17s, Brooklyn, y. Y.
dI4-1yTuThS
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Carriage Painting by j. E. Parmeter, at
9l6 and 9lS Eleventh street, between and ]. tt
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B. B. CART.

THE B. B. RIDING CART.-EDwIN BITHER,
the trainer and driver of Fhalias and Jay
Eye See, thus indorses the Beebee Cart: GIN
TLEgES: am often asked the question as to
which cart would recommend for jogging and
exercising horses. Since / have been using
your No. csrt answer invariably the Beebee
Cart, which like better ss use it more" The
Beebee is the easiest riding cart for parcel de-
livery, east, mail. laundry. butchers, grocers,
physicians ladies, for jogging and speeding, for
everything. Address
y. e. Davis ess Eoo.
Second street, bet. and j, Sacramento.
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GENERAL NOTICES.

"My love, what magic spell is thrown.
Upon your face? Its charm own.
Whence came thy pure and pearly teeth?
Thy rosy lips? Thy perfumed breath?'
She said, in accents sweet and clear,
tbs only SOZODOAT, my dear"
jyl-TuesI hursSat
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Advice to the Aged.

UyEE GAZETTE Is ONE OF THE BEsT
4 Country Papers in California, and the best
advertising medium for Sacramento Merchants
and Business Men to patroniEe. Ii is published
In the heart of the richest grain producing
sections In the State. and circulsfes largely 10
Sacramento, Sen Joaquin, Amsdor, Fl Dorado
and Caiaveras Counties. To secure the trade Of
these Eve counties by advertising. no better or
cheaper medium than the "GAZETTEv' csr, be
found.
Saturday. kEACEAE CAMPBELL, PrppiS
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PURCHASE
o.
SACRAMENTO CITY COUPONS

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE
L Funded Debt Sinking Fund of the city Of
Sacramento hereby give notice that they will
pay for Coupons cut from Sacramento city bonds
funded under the Acts of 1858 and 1864, the fol-
lowing prices, to wit: Coupons of 1877. 9S per
cent of their face value; for Coupons 1878, 81
cents of 1879. 50 cents; of $780, So cents of 1881
" cents; of 1882, 70 cents; of 1855 go cents; of
1884, 65 cents; of 1885, e. cents; of 1856 SIS cents
of 1887, 81 cents Address Funded Debt Com
missioners, Sacramento California.
NEWTON BOOTH,
CHARLES r PARSONS,
SPARROW SMITH
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GRATEFUL-COMFORTING.
EPPS'S COCOA.
RRE AkFAST,

BREAKFAST.
"By thorough knowledge OF the natural
laws which govern the operations of diges-
ton and nutrition, and by careful application
OF tae fine properties of wellselected Cocoa, Mr..
Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a
delcately Favored beverage which may save US
many heavy d0ctors' bills. 1t is by the judicious
use OF such articles diet that constitution may
be gradually built up until strong enough to re-
sist every tendency to disease. Hundreds OF
subtle malsdies are floating around us ready to
attack wherever there is weak point. We may
escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves
well fortified with pure blood and properly
nourished frame."-Civil Service Gazette.
only in halfpounds tins by irocers labelled thus:
JAMESEPP s. CO., homeopathic hem
lists London, England.
ap14iyTuTn
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L. L. LEWIS & CO.
IMMENSE BARGAINS!

Now the time need Of goods in line
making 800 VAP0R STOVES which
expect the next Thirty Days LOOK At THESE PRICES:
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Lily of the Valley Lodge, No. IL, ID. of H.,
A. o. U. W., will meet in Changers Hall, THIS
Tuesday EVENING, at S O'Clock. for general
business. MRS. TOGELGESA NG, C. of II.
MAMIE ASH, Recorder. apl9-It*
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CsOR SALE-250 ACRES OF LAND, UNDER
L cultivation, with Good House and Barn
well fenced-good water; % miles from here;
two miles from Folsom. Price Si,5G0 Apply
TO CARL STROBEL. 8 I ] street Gn, g LIE
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CTAMMERING AND SUFFERING CURED
- By a sure and simple method. For terms
etc, address DR.. I. A. KYLE Brighton Tenn.
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INSANE ASYLUM SUPPLIES.
PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES
State Insane Asylum !

TN PURSUANCE OF AN ACT OF THE LEGIS.
i lature of the State of California, entitled
" An Act Concerning the Insane Asylum of the
the existing law governing said institution
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received by n.
NJ. ORR, Secretary of the Board of Directors OF
the Insane Asylum of the State of California, al
his once, l5f Levee street, Stockton, up to
O clock p. 81, en-